Sport and Social Entrepreneurship: A Review of a Concept in Progress

Bjärsholm, Daniel

doi:10.1123/jsm.2017-0007

Cited by 74 publications

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“…Sports entrepreneurship is a mean to tackle managerial challenges of the uncertainty of outcome by improving the ability to handle the fast-changing demands of the sports environment. However, there is a lack of consensus in existing literature conceptualising sports entrepreneurship (Bjärsholm, 2017).…”

Section: Entrepreneurship In Sports Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Science is based on the use of well-defined concepts. Ratten being the only researcher defining the concept of sports entrepreneurship opens the field for misinterpretations (Bjärsholm, 2017). Further research is required to create new perspectives which can enrich the understanding of how to define sports entrepreneurship.…”

Section: Recommendations For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Entrepreneurial orientation in sports entrepreneurship - a mixed methods analysis of professional soccer clubs in the German-speaking countries

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In recent years, sports entrepreneurship has emerged as a promising discipline in the field of sports management research. However, the research field is still fragmented. This study gives an overview of sports entrepreneurship and coopetition research and is the first work analyzing EO and performance in professional sports. First, quantitative results about EO, organizational performance and coopetition of 22 professional soccer clubs were obtained. Following the mixed method approach, the data was then extended by qualitative expert interviews. Entrepreneurial orientation had a significant positive relationship with both financial and sporting performance of professional soccer clubs in German-speaking countries during the 2017/18 season. We suggest coopetition as a promising strategy for professional soccer clubs to succeed. Hence, our study fosters the concept of sports entrepreneurship and offers evidence that entrepreneurial orientation is a well-suited managerial approach to enhance organizational performance in professional soccer.

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Section: Entrepreneurship In Sports Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Recommendations For Future Researchmentioning

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Entrepreneurial orientation in sports entrepreneurship - a mixed methods analysis of professional soccer clubs in the German-speaking countries

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“… Bayle (2016) reviews Olympic social responsibility literature. Bjärsholm (2017) reviews social entrepreneurship in sports. Giulianotti (2015) critically reviews CSR in sports.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Sources of Knowledge of the Economic and Social Value in Sport Industry Research: A Co-citation Analysis

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The aim of this article is to map the intellectual structure of scholarship on economic and social value in the sport industry. Given that bibliometric techniques are specially appropriate for identifying the intellectual structures of a field of knowledge and complement traditional literature reviews, a co-citation bibliometric analysis has been applied. This kind of analysis identifies networks of interconnections. Therefore, we aim to detect both the most and the least active research areas in this field, as well as their sub-disciplinary composition. There is an abundance of literature on sport efficiency and economic efficiency in the sport industry, our main conclusion is the identification of a literature gap in regard to social value in sport organisations, which is expected to be a research opportunity for scholars. This is in line with the lack of standardisation in the measurement for social value in sport organisations. In fact, similar to analysis undertaken in the past few decades of other industries with contributions to stakeholders and the multi-fiduciary theory of stakeholders, both the creation of social value indicators for sport entities and the empirical analysis of social efficiency in sport institutions, are identified and outlined as future areas of research. Therefore, this bibliometric analysis will contribute to determine the future challenges that this area of research will face in the following years so as to fill the literature gap identified.

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“…However, research into sport and social entrepreneurship is rather limited and is currently in its infancy (Bj€ arsholm, 2017). Bj€ arsholm (2017) found that most articles dealing with sport and social entrepreneurship were focusing on the social entrepreneurial organization's goals, activities and finances.…”

Section: Sport and Social Entrepreneurshipmentioning

confidence: 99%